Over the last 10 years, York Mayor Kim Bracey's son, Brandon Anderson, racked up around $170,000 in overtime as a city employee, records obtained by the Daily Record show.

Between September 2016 and October of this year alone, Anderson earned nearly $32,000 in overtime, records show.

Anderson, 31, was charged in the September assault of his mother at her campaign headquarters in York. He remains on paid leave from his job as a shift supervisor at the Wastewater Treatment Plant, business administrator Michael Doweary said Wednesday. He has not been available for comment since then.

His base salary was $52,020 in 2017, according to city records.

City officials were not surprised by the dollar amounts and said this week that the plant has been beset with high-level manager vacancies, leaving Anderson and the two other shift supervisors to fill in for extra work.

From 2007, the year he was hired, and the end of 2016, he took home about $150,000 in overtime, according to the records.

Plant employees — of which there are collectively about 38 — can earn overtime, whether or not they belong to the union. The city follows a policy designed to keep overtime opportunities equal for employees covered under the Teamsters union agreement, said Thomas Ray, the city's deputy business administrator for human resources.

At the union level, for example, if a need arises for overtime, the city first asks the most senior employee, Ray said. After that, the city follows a "wheel" policy where it next asks the employee with the least amount of overtime hours worked.

An employee can say no the first time the city goes through the "wheel" list, but can require overtime work the second time through, Ray said.

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The plant hired general manager Frankie Campagne around February of this year, a position that had sat vacant for about a year and a half. An operations manager left in November 2013 and the plant didn't hire a replacement until earlier this year.

And recently, the plant was down a shift supervisor from late 2014 until May of 2015.

"You really had shift supervisors stepping up to do a lot more," Doweary said.

According to Doweary and Ray, the city was actively pursuing to fill vacancies for what Ray described as more specialized positions.

Applicants for operations manager, for example, must meet several requirements including having a bachelor's degree in chemistry or biology and five years of experience in the operation of a wastewater treatment plant.

Doweary said that the city was not overly concerned about the overtime used to cover the two vacancies, positions for which the city wasn't having to pay for.

"It was a wash from a financial standpoint," he said.

Ray said a number of other factors could lead a shift supervisor to use overtime including staying late for scheduling issues or a major rain event that causes flooding.

"There's a number of different scenarios that could happen," Ray said.

According to Ray, each department director budgets for overtime and what their request will be each year. A shift supervisor's immediate supervisor approves that employee's overtime.

In 2017, the plant requested $150,000 for overtime with a projected year end overtime cost for 2016 at roughly $160,000, according to budget records.

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